Find a host lab

STEP 1

You have first to choose one laboratory, see below.
Contact thesis directors of interest and if they appreciate your CV, ask them to send you a confirmation by email that she/he agrees to act as your potential thesis director and confirms that you were in contact with her/him before applying.
You should mention her/his name in your application form (see STEP 2) to continue your application.

Host Labs

A-C

Laboratories	Thesis Directors	Subject proposed
Anesthesiology	Suter Marc	Exploring the pathophysiology of spinal microglia in chronic pain condition
Biomedical Data Science Center	Raisaro Jean Louis	Clinical Data Science: "Developing innovative solutions based on machine learning and artificial intelligence for improving sepsis care".
Biomedical sciences	Amati Francesca	From organellar to organismal metabolism, translational research from human diseases to cellular models and zebrafish.
Biomedical sciences	Habib Shukry	Advanced Regenerative Biomaterials
Biomedical sciences	Langlet Fanny	Investigating the impact of mircrobiota on tanycyte barrier controlling food intake
Biomedical Sciences	Naveiras Olaia	Role of Marrow Stromal Adipocyte Differentiation in Immune Control over Mesurable Residual Disease in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Biomedical sciences	Tzanoulinou Stamatina	Long-term consequences of social stress
Brain Computer Interfaces and Neuroprosthetics	Lorach Henri	Development of bi-directional Brain Computer Interfaces and neuroprosthetic systems to alleviate neurological deficits.
Center for Integrative Genomics	Benton Richard	Evolution of neural circuits or evolution of toxin resistance
Center for Integrative Genomics	Fankhauser Christian	Plant growth and development are profoundly influenced by their environment. Light and temperature are two external cues with a particularly strong impact as can be observed with global warming affecting vegetation. We are trying to understand the underlying mechanisms primarily using the model species Arabidopsis thaliana
Center for Integrative Genomics	Gatfield David	Studying the role of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in cancer.
Center for Integrative Genomics	Larsch Johannes	Neurogenetics of social behavior
Center for Integrative Genomics	Vastenhouw Nadine	HOT regions in the genome are regions with an unusual High Occupancy of Transcription factors. These regions have been suggested to affect gene expression but exactly how they function is not clear. We have recently identified HOT regions in the zebrafish genome that all come together in nuclear space. This may provide an important clue to the function of HOT regions as these clusters could potentially provide an important source of transcription factors. The aim of this project is to answer how these regions come together, and how that impacts heir function. You will use state of the art sequencing and imaging approaches to address these questions.
Clinical Neuroscience	Crottaz-Herbette Sonia	Modulation of brain activation and structure by cognitive training in stroke patients and healthy subjects
Clinical Neuroscience	De Lucia Marzia	The neural underpinning of bodily and sensory stimulus processing in humans in varieties of conscious and unconscious states
Computational Biology	Kutalik Zoltan	Region-specific causal effect of risk factors on cardio-metabolic outcomes.

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D-F

Laboratories	Thesis Directors	Subject proposed
Ecology and Evolution	Mullon Charles	Mathematical modelling of eco-evolutionary processes
Ecology and Evolution	Pannell John	Evolution of plant sexual systems and/or sex chromosomes
Ecology and Evolution	Robinson-Rechavi Marc	Either evolution of animal genomes and development, or bioinformatics of gene expression database, specific subject to determine with the candidate
Ecology and Evolution	Roulin Alexandre	To study foraging strategies in the barn owl
Ecology and Evolution	Wedekind Claus	Anthropogenic effects on the genetic load of salmonid populations
Family Medicine	Müller Chabloz Yolanda	In Switzerland, 85% of antibiotics are prescribed on an outpatient basis. Optimizing the prescription of antibiotics helps prevent the development of antibiotic resistance. The antimicrobial stewardship group is interested in the bet way to promote the appropriate use of antibiotics in ambulatory care. We carry out research aimed at better understanding antibiotic prescribing in Switzerland, evaluating the effectiveness of innovative interventions, and the implementation of evidence-based strategies.
Fundamental Microbiology	Collier Justine	DNA replication and DNA methylation in Alphaproteobacteria.
Fundamental Microbiology	Engel Philipp	Metabolic crosstalk between the gut microbiota and the host; Ecology and evolution of the gut microbiota; bee health, Wet lab and bioinformatics; Multi-omics analyses
Fundamental Microbiology	Gruber Stephan	Elucidating SMC functions in chromosome segregation and in DNA immunity
Fundamental Microbiology	Mitri Sara	Making and breaking coexistence in bacterial communities
Fundamental Microbiology	Navarro Paula	Host-phage interactions in corynebacteriales using in situ cryo-electron microscopy
Fundamental Microbiology	Schaerli Yolanda	Diverse projects in synthetic biology, including synthetic gene regulatory networks, engineered living materials, synthetic pattern formation, CRISPR-based networks, synthetic oscillators, bacterial biosensors
Fundamental Microbiology	Veening Jan-Willem	The student gets to choose their pathogen of interest (pneumococcus, staphylococcus aureus, Group A Strep) and design a set of chemogenomics screens using CRISPRi-seq that will uncover new biology. Read more
Fundamental Microbiology	Vettiger Andrea	Fluorescence Lifetime Microscopy as a Tool for Bacterial Cell Envelopes and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing
Fundamental Microbiology	Vonaesch Pascale	Study of the emergence of AMR within a synthetic community of the human gut, the role of overall community composition as well as potential modulating factors including temperature and other disturbances
Fundamental Neurosciences	Bagni Claudia	The Development of the Hedonic Nose in Health and Disease Cellular Communications in Early Brain Development Using Human Brain Organoids
Fundamental Neurosciences	Croizier Sophie	Sexual dimorphism of hypothalamic cilia
Fundamental Neurosciences	Kathe Claudia	From neuronal circuits to motor deficits: exploring spinal network maturation in cerebral palsy
Fundamental Neurosciences	Neukomm Lukas	Metabolic control of neuronal health and function
Fundamental Oncology	Petrova Tatiana	1. Modulation of the tumor microenvironment by bacterial metabolites 2. Interorgan communication via blood and lymphatic vessels 3. Strategies for prevention of colon cancer

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G-O

Laboratories	Thesis Directors	Subject proposed
Gastroenterology and Hepatology	Gouttenoire Jérôme	Investigating the host factors required for hepatitis E virus (HEV) life cycle
Geriatrics	D'Amelio Patrizia	The present study will test the hypothesis that in malnourished patients hospitalized in a geriatric rehabilitation unit, a nutritional intervention combining BCAAs and selected micronutrients may improve the nutritional status and the clinical consequences of malnutrition, namely sarcopenia and impaired immune function through modulation of the mitochondrial bioenergetics, oxidative state, inflammaging and innate immune defense.
Geriatrics	Jox Ralf J.	The wish to die and its link to assisted suicide: a mixed-method study; 1) Retrospective quantitative questionnaire study among all 20'000 members of EXIT Suisse romande assessing the wish to die and associations with socio-demographic and psychometric variables 2) Psychometric valiadation of the Wish to Die Scale and longitudinal assessment of the wish to die using the method of Ecological Momentary Assessment
Immunobiology	Draber Peter	Enhancing anti-tumor immunity by promoting IL-17-induced signaling and Tregs conversion
Immunobiology	Esser-von Bieren Julia	Regulation of IL-4-driven ferroptosis in asthma
Immunobiology	Rebsamen Manuele	Functional and mechanistic characterization of solute carriers in immune responses
Infectious Diseases	Roger Thierry	Harnessing innate immune training (innate immune memory) to improve sepsis management
Information Systems	Villa Alessandro	Mindscope: Bridging the gap between fNIRS and neuronal dynamics during decision making
Institute of Sport Sciences of the University of Lausanne (ISSUL)	Place Nicolas	To be discussed with the interest of the candidate but in principle focused on ( i ) skeletal muscle plasticity with a translational approach (from cell to human) and/or ( ii ) neuromuscular adaptations to exercise
Microbiology	Greub Gilbert	Mechanisms of resistance to antimicrobial peptides in Gram-negative pathogens
Obstetrics, Gestational diabetes	Puder Jardena	Relationships between eating behavior, brain responses to food viewing, and metabolic health outcomes
Oncology	Herrera Fernanda	Exploring the Immunological Landscape of Radiation-Induced Cellular Senescence
Oncology	Verdeil Grégory	Mechanisms regulating NFAT5 dependent inhibition of anti-tumor response in exhausted CD8 T cells
Ophtalmology	Ansar Muhammad	The discovery of new inherited retinal dystrophy genes and exploring therapeutic options for Cohen syndrome
Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery	Anschütz Lukas	Novel cortical interfaces to treat hearing defects

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P-Z

Laboratories	Thesis Directors	Subject proposed
Plant Molecular Biology	Hardtke Christian	Developmental Cell Biology of the Plant Vasculature
Plant Molecular Biology	Marín Arancibia Macarena	To nodulate or not nodulate: a legume's dilemma
Psychiatric Neurosciences	Toni Nicolas	Adult hippocampal neurogenesis, from regulation mechanisms to Depression and Alzheimer's disease
Psychiatry	Preisig Martin	Vailability of large data sets. Specific topic needs to be defined in function of the candidate's interests either on the risk of children of parents with psychiatric disorders or links between psychiatric disorders and cardiovascular risk factors in the general population.
Radiology	Murray Micah	Longitudinal study of multisensory development in schoolchildren
Radiology	Pascucci David	Neural correlates of temporal variability in human perception and cognitive performance.
Swiss BioMotion Lab	Favre Julien	Human movement biomechanics
Thoracic Surgery	Perentes Jean	Tumor biology and translation research in the context of chest malignancies
Vascular surgery	Allagnat Florent	Impact of pre-operative nutrition on circadian rhythm and surgical stress
Woman - Mother - Child	Horsch Antje	The SwiTCH study focuses on parents' experiences following the birth of a child. The main aims of the study are (1) to assess the proportion of births experienced with difficulty by mothers and their partners, (2) to identify risk and protective factors for mothers and their partners, and (3) to study the possible consequences of a difficult birth on different variables (mental health, couple relationship, parent-child relationship, care behaviours). Link to the published protocol

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